Culture Buzz A special designer edition of Scrabble now comes in a font of your choice (or an assorted font pack) and features beautiful walnut tiles. Too bad Words with Friends isn't this pretty. Available for pre-order here. (via poploser.org)
Culture Buzz This person deserves all the self-satisfaction in the world. I'm pretty psyched if I get anything over 35.
Culture Buzz The “A-1 Scrabble Design Edition Board” is a creation by designer Andrew Capener, with a completely new and unique board, including customizable fonts for the tiles in a variety of typesets. It's got everything from Books Antiqua to Helvetica. (via good.is)
Culture Buzz Utterly charming cakes from nerd nuptials. Much more fun than all of that William and Kate, Royal Wedding stuffiness.
Culture Buzz An idea for a Designer Edition of Scrabble by Andrew Capener. Choose from an assortment of fonts! Impress your sesquipedalian typophile friends! (Via Clusterflock.)
Computer Scrabble! And all for the cost of a new iPad and two standard iPhones. How far we've come.
Paris based advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather have done an amazing job for Mattel in creating a trio of advertisements for the “love it or hate it” board game of Scrabble. This, my BuzzFeed brothers and sisters, is what I call an ad apart. Sit back and enjoy!
When designers play Scrabble… Score so far: 32 to 17. There's got to be a better way to play these letters.
How do you spell cockatoo? Big points if you can beat this bird with the word “influenza,” it might send a message or something.
… Only worth 7 points in Scrabble, but it speaks volumes about whoever is in charge of generating the word for Hasbro's website. Specifically, that they probably shouldn't be in charge of that anymore. This screenshot, posted on Boing Boing, is from Sunday. They've since changed Sunday's word to “Triply,” which seems a poor substitute.
For all you Scrabble fanatics out there, here is the ultimate - a keyboard made from Scrabble tiles. The keyboard was made by a couple Scrabble enthusiasts and is one-of-a-kind.
Tech Buzz The Facebook version of the Scrabble game has been shut down in the U.S. The online addiction of millions has been broken in the single removal of a Facebook app. Will this break bad for Hasbro? Will online Boggle enjoy a surge of popularity? And how will word-people now lord their superiority over the rest of us?